PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big "yes, try it" button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool
https://queer.party/@m04/112872517189786676
So, Mozilla adds an AI review features for products you view using Firefox. Other than being very useless, it's T&C are as anti-consumer as it possibly can be. It's like mozilla saying directly "we don't care about your privacy".
Why do advertisers want you to have tools that help you detect covert advertising?
In long term, for substituting them with their own links. In short term it's a nice feature.
Because Mozilla takes a metric shitload of your data via fakespot such as (but not limited to)
https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy
And then sells it to advertisers